Programme

We are now just finalising the programme for GISRUK 2019. Our preliminary schedule is now available at the link below.

Our key headlines

Early Career workshops (see details): We will have a series of workshops starting from Tuesday lunchtime and concluding at Wednesday lunchtime. We have refreshed these a little from those held at previous conferences so keep an eye out for more details.

Panel session (see details): This will discuss the topic 'How will the opening up of geospatial data help the GIS community'.

Early career parallel session: There will be a dedicated parallel session for early career researchers to present ideas for current or future research.

The draft programme starts at 12:30 on Tuesday lunchtime for the workshops, and then Wednesday/Thursday start at 9am. On Friday the plan is to start at 9:30. The academic programme will finish at 17:30 at the latest each day, apart from Friday when we plan to finish by 13:00 to allow you all to travel home. We will hopefully confirm the programme soon so check back here or keep an eye out on social media (@GISRUK) for announcements.

The final programme will be made available online with all accepted abstracts, and there is no plan to print a full programme for attendees. Within the venue a small number of printed schedules will be made available on a day-by-day basis for those who require one.

Information for accepted authors

Oral presentations:

All screens are widescreen format (16:9)

Bring your slides/presentations to the session room on a USB 10mins before your session starts. If wanting to use your own laptop, please make sure it can connect via HDMI and let us know prior to the event.

Full presentations: These should be 15minutes in length, with 5minutes for questions following

Short presentations: These should be 5minutes in length, with 10minutes for discussion following

Poster presentations:

Please bring your poster already printed (we can advise on places to get posters printed in Newcastle if required).

Posters should be A1 in size, either landscape or portrait.

Poster boards will be setup for you to put your poster up from Thursday(25th) morning.

Keynote speakers

Wednesday 24th April - Professor Renee Sieber

Renée Sieber is a professor of geography and environment (jointly appointed) at McGill University, in Montréal, Canada. She is also affiliated with McGill’s School of Computer Science, McGill’s Digital Humanities Working Group and the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre of Quebec. Sieber works at the intersection of social theory and computer code. She is best known for her research on Public Participation GIS/ Participatory GIS. She authored the definitive review of PPGIS, which has been cited over 1000 times. She was awarded the CAG’s GIS Study Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her PPGIS research and her role in supporting GIS research in Canada. She sits on the executive committee of Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada, which will be holding its 7th conference in February in Banff. Sieber just concluded a SSHRC Partnership, called Geothink, which investigated how citizens and cities interact via the geospatial web 2.0, crowdsourcing and open data. She is currently researching the role of artificial intelligence in civic governance.

Thursday 25th April - Dr Gobe Hobona

Dr. Gobe Hobona is the Director of Knowledge Management for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC is an international industry consortium of over 521 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards for geospatial technologies. Dr Hobona is responsible for the OGC’s knowledge management strategy to create an environment that enables the OGC membership to identify, create, represent, share, distribute, and adopt insights and experiences across programmes. His other roles within the OGC include being Chair of the OGC Naming Authority and the OGC Architecture Domain Working Group. Prior to joining OGC staff, he was the Consultancy Team Leader and Head of Applied Research at Envitia. During his time at Envitia, he was the technical lead of a multi-year geospatial research project sponsored by a major UK government ministry. He has also previously held postdoctoral research posts at Newcastle University and the University of Nottingham. He is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Friday 26th April - Thierry Gregorius

Thierry Gregorius is a GIS and Geomatics professional with over 20 years' experience in Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, having worked for companies like Royal Dutch Shell and Landmark Information Group, where he occupied global and senior leadership positions. For the past 6 years he has worked as a management consultant with Exprodat Consulting (a Getech group company), where he is currently pursuing his passion for helping people transform how they work - with GIS or otherwise. Thierry holds a PhD in Satellite Geodesy from Newcastle University and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Panel session

Theme: How will the opening-up of geospatial data help the GIS community?

We have 4 workshops which are aimed at early career researchers. Below are the details, but if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Workshop A

Title: Accessing open data and using API's

Date/time: Tuesday 23rd, 3pm

Requirements: Please bring a laptop along.

Outline: This session will introduce open data, and the increasing availability of a vast array of open data from a wide range of themes. Led the Newcastle Urban Observatory, you will also get the chance to explore what API's are, and how to use them.

Workshop B

Title: Spatial data with R

Being run by: Nick Bearman and Robin Lovelace

Date/time: Wednesday 24th, 9am

Requirements: Please bring a laptop along.

Outline: This workshop will show you how to use R to manage and process spatial data. We will show you how to make choropleth maps and perform basic spatial analysis in R, as well as how to leverage the power of programming to create multiple maps quickly, one of the major benefits of using a scripting language such as R.

We will also introduce the newly released book Geocomputation with R, an open source resource for anyone wanting to learn R for geographic research, and provide pointers towards more advanced methods and visualisation techniques.

Workshop C

Title: GIS in industry

Being run by: Laura Hanson

Date/time: Wednesday 24th

Outline: This session will give attendees a chance to explore how GIS is employed and used within industry. You will have the chance to speak to GIS professionals about their careers thus far and there day-to-day work and how GIS plays a role in this.

Workshop D

Title: Seeing our cities: visualising urban digital twins

Being run by: Professor Nick Holliman, Newcastle University

Date/time: Tuesday 23rd, 1pm

Outline: This workshop will be in two halves. In the first we will demonstrate the capabilities of the a standarad visualisation tool, Microsoft's PowerBI, for presenting and interacting with urban data. In the second half we will look to the future and discuss research using cloud supercomputing to investigate where visualisation tools might go in the next twenty years.